RE: [BackupPC-users] Data directory on Windows mount point?

[Kelly F. H. <kf...@mq...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:le...@fu...]
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 2:23 PM
> To: Tony Nelson
> Cc: Jerry Norton; bac...@li...
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Data directory on Windows mount point?
>=20
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 13:54, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > Won't work.. search the lists.. Windows doesn't support hard links
which
> is
> > necessary for the BackupPC pool.
>=20
> NTFS actually does support hard links - windows just lacks a command
to
> create them and smbmount may not pass them through in any case.  There
> would be some chance of getting it to work if you can install
> windows "services for unix" which is currently a free download and
> NFS export the directory to use for storage.   I haven't tried this
> but it would be pretty lame if they didn't handle hard links through
> the NFS server.
[Kelly F. Hickel] You can also use junction from
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction , this is
probably lighter weight than downloading all of SFU if linkd is all you
need.

-Kelly
>=20
> If that fails you might create a huge file in a directory accessed
> via smbmount, then make an ext3 or reiser filesystem on it and mount
> it via the loopback interface (-o loop).  I'd test pretty carefully
> to be sure you don't hit any lingering 2Gb size limits in smbmount,
> though.
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